Illuminati-R-Us

Enjoying this thread with great interest.

October 21 1805 Battle of Trafalgar. Where Horatio Nelson the 1st Duke of Bronté outnumbered, beat back a combined dreaded French and Spanish armada saving the shining shores of Albion (I'm learning) and dashing the plans of the French upstart Napoleon. Further demonstrating England as a ocean superpower to be reckoned with.

GriderPirate wrote:Further demonstrating England as a ocean superpower to be reckoned with.

Not England old boy, Britain.

October 21st 1966 - 144 people (including 116 children) die in the Aberfan disaster.

Lianachan wrote:Not England old boy, Britain.

And not the French upstart, the Corsican upstart.

October 21st, 1097 - Godfrey, Bohemund, and and Raymond begin the siege of Antioch. The Crusader Army remained at Antioch for fifteen months, before moving on Jerusalem, when the rank-and-file mutinied and informed the leaders they were going to Jerusalem with or without them.

Great Britain, yes. Forgive me. In my limited defense I thought he was quoted saying "England expects that every man will do his duty." What what I thought was the Flag of St. George flying on the stern of some depictions was actually the white ensign of the royal navy which includes the union jack. I stand corrected.

December 7th, 2016 - happy 1,495th birthday to Colm Cille.

Happy 100th Birthday: Kirk Douglas

Born: December 9, 1916

627 – Battle of Nineveh: A Byzantine army under Emperor Heraclius defeats Emperor Khosrau II's Persian forces. Fackin' Arab Moslems got what was coming to them! 'merica!

It's 'Merka, you nonce.

'murica!

Merka must be where these come from:

20 December, 1996: We lost Carl Sagan

Dec 31st 2016: Happy 296th birthday to HRH Charles Edward Louis John Casimir Sylvester Severino Maria Stuart.

January 20th, 2005 @ ~10:30am CST, I smoked my last cigarette.

Well done fella.

Thanks!

Way to go Lance. 1st day of spring will be 5 yrs. for me.

Good work fella!

30th January 1948: Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by a fellow Hindu for not being extreme enough. After the horrors of partition his death did much to unite India and cause many of the extremists to back away from violence, at least for a while.

30th January, 1933: Adolf Hitler is instituted as Reichskanzler by President Hindenburg.

January 30th, 1972 - "Bloody Sunday" in Northern Ireland.

An eventful day through history.

Jan 30th, 1649 - King Charles parts company with his head.
Jan 30th, 1661 - The already dead (for 2 years) body of Oliver Cromwell is ritually "executed".

January 30th, 1982 - Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner".

On this day in 1959; the music died.

February 10th, 1306: Robert the Bruce kills John Comyn in Greyfriar's Church, Dumfries.

[tedious Dumfries aside]That would be the old church, the plaque commemorating it used to be where Greggs the Bakers is now. About 150m north is where I went to school.[/tedious Dumfries aside]